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Vital sign 9: Times and seasons
In a nutshell
When it comes to the big seasons in the church year – Easter,
Christmas, Remembrance Sunday, and so on – the calendar can be
full to bursting and we hope our buildings will be, too. But as church
leaders, it’s all too easy to think of these seasons purely in terms of
what’s happening in the gathered church, rather than considering the
way they’re worked out in our people’s everyday frontline contexts.
